Letters to the Editor

Valley resident upset by helicopter noise

Welcome to the Cedar City valley, where in this remote rural area you will be bombarded with helicopter noise from sunrise to sunset. What was once a quiet small town area with limited normal aircraft operations has been changed.

Now you can listen to the noise of low flying helicopters while you are jogging, gardening, sitting on your patio or at your kitchen table. Their training pattern departs from the airport and circles the valley to the west then back to the airport time after time after time.

It is a constant din of not one but two training choppers circling and circling the valley all day long.

Bernie Steinberger

Cedar City

Questions of faith? Go right to the source

Who can you trust to give you unbiased facts and fair statements of another's beliefs?

A recent ad by an anti-Mormon group says they will give you the doctrinal "claims of the LDS faith."

Since when would any of us expect our opposition, competitors or enemies to give us a truthful view of our beliefs?

Would the tea party expect other parties to represent them fairly? Or would the Arabs represent the Jews territorial views without prejudice? (They don't even show Israel on their maps.) I have read others' views of Mormon beliefs for 50 years, and have yet to find them stated 100 percent correctly.

So what can you expect from them except their worst possible take on any views LDS people have. Isn't it more likely that they are out to make themselves look good, at our expense.

If anyone wants to find out what The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believes, they have but to call any one of our 100-plus churches here or ask any good member, or look up Mormon.org on the Internet, wherein they list our scriptures, magazines, and there is even a listing asking "what do Mormons believe?"

Bruce P. Ornstead

St. George

Congress should have same health care as the poor

Shame, shame, shame on any member of Congress that accepts a subsidy for purchase of their health care when most Americans do not even qualify with considerably less income!

Marsha Boex

Washington City

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Letters to the Editor

Welcome to the Cedar City valley, where in this remote rural area you will be bombarded with helicopter noise from sunrise to sunset. What was once a quiet small town area with limited normal